SYSTEM FOR SNAP AND PAN OF EMBEDDED MAPS WITHIN RETAIL STORE SEARCH RESULTS AND METHOD OF USING SAME

摘要

A system and method includes receiving a search query for a product to be located in a retail store, obtaining a store map, the store map being indicative of a layout of the retail store, providing one or more search results as a list to the mobile device, each of the one or more search results being associated with a physical location of the product in the retail store, present the store map overlaid with an icon on a graphical display of the mobile device, and changing a location on the store map of the icon to another icon as the customer scrolls the search results displayed on the mobile device, updating the store map by panning/zooming to the changed location on the store map, and providing the changed location of the icon to the physical location on the store map of the currently scrolled to, top-most, product to the mobile device for display.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a computer system configured to provide output of a retail store to a mobile device of a customer; the computer system being configured to receive a search query for a product to be located in the retail store inputted by the customer into a mobile application running on the mobile device, to perform a search on a plurality of product records corresponding to a plurality of products located in the retail store, to identify one or more of the product records relevant to the product in the search query, to obtain a store map, the store map being indicative of a layout of the retail store, and to transmit a representation of the store map and the one or more product records identified as one or more search results; the computer system being configured to provide the one or more search results as a list to the mobile device, each of the one or more search results being associated with a physical location of the product in the retail store, and to present the store map overlaid with an icon on a graphical display of the mobile device, wherein the store map represents the retail store and the icon is positioned overlaid on the map to designate a physical location of a corresponding one or more of the list of search results for the retail store; and the computer system being configured to change a location on the store map of the icon to another icon as the customer scrolls the search results displayed on the mobile device, to update the store map by panning/zooming to the changed location on the store map, and to provide the changed location of the icon to the physical location on the store map of the currently scrolled to, top-most, product to the mobile device for display.